7 hypotheses explain that MH370 is still different after a year

Being hijacked by hijackers, shot down or even abducted by aliens are the hypotheses that explain MH370's distinction a year ago.

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A Malaysian Airlines aircraft.(Photo: Malaysia Airlines)

A year after the Boeing 777 carrying Malaysia Airlines number MH370 disappeared on March 8, the plane remained the hot topic of a series of hypotheses. Some theories are based on real evidence, judged by experts as reasonable, but there are also hypotheses that are quite far-fetched, unconvincing.

Have the hand of the CIA

According to the Telegraph, one of the most popular hypotheses was that it landed at Diego Garcia, the British island in the Indian Ocean, home to a large US military base.

He Xin, a Chinese blogger, thinks that the missing MH370 is the result of an activity done by the CIA to gain control of some "special people or people" on the plane.

On MH370, there are 20 employees of US technology company Freescale Semiconductor, producing microchips for various fields, including the defense industry. 12 of these two employees are from Malaysia and 8 from China. This leads to speculation that they hold important industrial secrets.

Xin said the plane was forced to land at Diego Garcia, which explains why the victims believed the phone of the people on the plane still ringing a few hours after disappearing. MH370 can be dismantled in a storage compartment before being burned and dumped into the sea. However, he did not provide evidence for this argument.

Shot down

Aircraft MH370 may be shot down during joint military exercises between the US and Thailand in the South China Sea. This hypothesis is reinforced in a book called "Flight Mystery MH370" by British writer Nigel Cawthorne.

"The exercises include ground, sea and air operations, including live ammunition exercises," Cawthorne wrote, saying the plane could be accidentally shot down. Relatives of people on the plane MH370 criticize the book as hasty and insensitive.

Marc Dugain, former CEO of Proteus Airlines, said the plane was shot down near a US military base on the island of Diego Garcia, after having to redirect to the area because of hijacking control of the system. count.

According to IBTimes, Dugain speculated that soldiers at the US base in the Indian Ocean were afraid that the plane would be used as in 9/11, so they shot down the plane.

A fisherman recounted that "the giant plane, with red and blue stripes on the white background" flew above the head, shortly after MH370 disappeared on March 8. In addition, an empty fire extinguisher from the missing plane was picked up by the inhabitants of the nearby island of Baarah, Dugain said.

However, officials rejected this theory. "There is no indication that MH370 flies anywhere near Maldives or Diego Garcia. MH370 does not respond to Diego Garcia," an official at the US Embassy in Malaysia said.

Hijack

Some people believe that the aircraft was under terrorist control, much like the 9/11 terrorist attacks on New York and Washington. According to this widely spread hypothesis, MH370 does not fall, but is in fact prepared to be used for a spectacular terrorist attack.

One of the proponents of this theory is Christopher Green from the Alternative Media Television group. In the YouTube video, there were nearly 320,000 views, he said, a terrorist group or even a rogue state might have hijacked flight MH370 to take it to a secret place. They may be "equipping a nuclear bomb to prepare for an attack, possibly destroying and blowing an American city".

In PBS 'NOVA documentary series, experts believe that the aircraft could be robbed of remote control, using an easily accessible device on Boeing 777 aircraft.

"Can the hijackers take control of the plane without stepping in the cockpit?" Said veteran journalist Miles O'Brien. "This is not easy, but possible."

O'Brien found the video produced by a Brazilian airline in 2006, showing the exact location of the "electronics chamber" and how to get inside. This is not too difficult because the entrance door is usually not locked.

Entrance to equipment chamber on Boeing 777 aircraft in NOVA documentary.(Screenshots)

The video shows a Brazilian pilot opening a hatch to enter this space, "just outside the cockpit door, near the front kitchen". "It is a separate room. It is very big," described the former National Traffic Safety Committee member John Goglia.

In the room with the Mobile Maintenance Access Device used by the maintenance team, access to the aircraft control computer system is possible. High technical knowledge is required to use this device, but using it to control the aircraft is possible, airline aviation journalist Jeff Wise said.

There is no requirement that the door to this chamber be locked, although Boeing offers an optional lock. When NOVA asked Malaysia Airlines that the hatch on MH370 was locked or not, the airline refused to comment.

Mobile Maintenance Access Device of Boeing 777 in NOVA documentary. (Screenshot)

MH370 is MH17

According to the BBC, many discussions on aviation forums speculated that the aircraft thought to be MH17 at the July 2014 accident in Ukraine was actually MH370. Both aircraft belong to the same model, but MH17 is an older version, since 1997. Proponents of this argument cite the image of fragments from the scene, suggesting that the plane crashed is the new version.

"MH17 has a secondary window next to the second door on the right, and MH370 does not. The body of the plane at the accident scene in Ukraine is also not available," an account on the forum wrote. There is also an opinion that the Malaysian flag symbol on the crashed plane also appears in the wrong position.

A pro-Russian rebel leader said that people on the plane had actually died before the aircraft took off. With this hypothesis, passports are said to intentionally be placed next to the bodies.

However, aviation bloggers rejected this argument, claiming that the images were edited. They also asked how to steal the plane carrying 239 people and hide it for 6 months? Is it possible to believe that the aircraft is loaded with corpses, "substituting" another Malaysia Airlines flight, expected from Amsterdam to Kuala Lumpur?

Abducted by aliens

According to The Week, 5% of Americans believe the plane was abducted by aliens, according to a survey by Reason.com. According to some bloggers, in recent times, unidentified flying objects (UFOs) have appeared many times in Malaysia and this is evidence of extraterrestrial interference. Alexandra Bruce, from Forbidden Knowledge TV, "demonstrates" alien involvement with the incident by analyzing radar data. She announced a video on YouTube showing the presence of something "only called UFO" in the sky of Malaysia. However, this hypothesis is considered by many to be quite remote.

Suicide pilots

"We know what happens. There is only one option. The case is caused by someone's willful act, which can be the captain," said David Learmount, aviation safety editor at Flight Global said.

Captain Zaharie Ahmad Shah, 53 years old (left) and co-pilot Fariq Abdul Hamid, 27, of missing Malaysian aircraft.(Photo: NST).

An explanation for the sudden disappearance of the aircraft could be the pilot's suicide control and the missing plane. According to Mirror, Malaysian detectives discovered captain Zaharie Ahmad Shah, 53, who did not plan for the future. He left the work diary and social activities blank, unlike the others in the crew.

When asked about this argument, John Brennan, head of the US Central Intelligence Agency (CIA), said "no hypothesis can be overlooked."

Meanwhile, Hugh Dunleavy, Malaysia Airlines' commercial director, said the captain is an experienced pilot with excellent performance. "We don't see abnormal signs in his behavior or attitude," Dunleavy said. "We have no reason to believe that the internal crew has made the plane disappear."

Fire

One of the most common hypotheses is that there was a fire that killed all people on the plane, but it was burnt out before damaging the aircraft's outer shell. This explains why the plane flew automatically for a long distance, off the expected path.

An aviation source said that if this assumption is correct, the aircraft could fall into the water at speeds greater than 960 km / h after sliding down from a height of more than 10,600 m. "The plane does not fall like a stone, it can slide down from a height of more than 10,600 m about 10-12 minutes after the fuel runs out," the man said.

"It could fall to the surface with strong impact, as if it fell to the concrete surface. No one could survive. There might be a big explosion, the wing of the plane broke and the body of the plane might have sunk. straight to the seabed, "the source speculated.

There is very little solid evidence of fate MH370, so it is difficult to provide a consistent and appropriate explanation. However, at this time, the disappearance will continue to be a fertile ground for theorists, unless the aircraft fragment is found and the mystery is exposed to light.